With Leila Seth passing away, feminism has lost one of its strongest pillars
South Asia Citizens Web
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India: A jurist who broke barriers
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India: With Rising Cow Vigilantism, Death stalks the land
by , 8 May 2017The murder of individuals by mobs in the name of "cow protection” has become common in Hindutva-dominated India, occurring in states as far apart as Manipur and Gujarat, Rajasthan and Assam, besides the Hindi-heartland and cow-belt of Himachal Pradesh-Haryana-Uttar Pradesh-Madhya Pradesh-Jharkhand-Chhattisgarh, and Jammu and Kashmir as well.
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India: 50 Years of Naxalbari - Remember Your Humanity, Rebel
by , 8 May 2017A teenager’s journey from Delhi’s St Stephen’s to the starving hamlets of Bihar and the killing fields of militias is a personal history of the Naxal upsurge
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Bangladesh: Secular activists protest over sectarian content of textbooks
8 May 2017News report from New Age of 9 May 2017
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Three more signs that Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League has tightened its embrace of Islamism | Ikhtisad Ahmed
8 May 2017Its boycott of Bengali New Year parade, the Lady Justice row and pro-madrasa education reform are the latest examples of ruling party’s pandering to Islamists
